Pumping Irony

What if some guys from the development teams of Tribes played PlanetSide and said “Hey! I have an idea…”

That isn’t what happened, but this Global Agenda Developer Documentary footage makes me think first and foremost of Tribes with a little arena FPS (Quake 3 or UT-style) thrown in for good measure, then deployed on a massively multiplayer scale.

Global Agenda is a futuristic “spy-fi” (their term) action MMOG using the Unreal 3 engine for graphical rendering. I hesitate to use the MMOFPS acronym because there’s plenty of third-person footage there, and [snark] judging from forums and blogs, I am one of ten people on the entire planet who know what “FPS” actually means. [/snark] But at first glance from the video and the website, it’s a massively multiplayer team-based shooter with RPG-style advancements (which is all the rage with modern shooters anyway). The End.

The developers in the video claim this is largely a player-driven world, where players can essentially create their own factions and decide who they ally with or oppose. The game will also feature plenty of fighting for territorial control.

Global Agenda might give fans of PlanetSide and people who have wanted a massively multiplayer shooter something to look forward to. Personally, while I think it looks fun on the surface, from my own experiences I have serious doubts to the longevity of a PvP-only game for me. I said the same of WAR as well. I love shooters, but I don’t spend much time with them like I did a decade ago when I lived and breathed FPS games. Now I prefer RPG’s where I can pick and choose what activity I want, be it PvE, PvP, crafting, or just running in circles chatting with friends.

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